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FULL-TIME FACULTY
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Michael Rustad |
Thomas F. Lambert Jr. Professor of Law & Co-Director Intellectual Property Law Concentration
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| S H O R T B I O G R A P H Y |
Resident Associate, Wellesley College Center for Res. on Women, MA, 1979-81; Adjunct Professor, Boston College, 1982-83; Assistant Professor, Northeastern, 1983-87; Clerk, Judge William E. Doyle, U.S.C.A., 10th Circuit, Denver, 1984-85; Associate, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, 1986-88; Associate Professor, Suffolk, 1988-91; Professor, since 1991
Degrees:
BA, University of North Dakota; MA, University of Maryland; PhD, Boston College; JD, Suffolk University; LLM, Harvard University
Bar Admittance:
MA
Subjects:
High Technology Law; Cyberspace Law; Information Law; Uniform Commercial Code; Torts
Professional Activities:
American Law Institute, Member of Consultative Groups: Torts, UCC, Transnational Civil Procedure; Task Leader, Subcommittee on Information Licensing, ABA Business Law Section
; Member, Law & Society Association; Member, ALI; Subcommittee on Software Contracting, ABA, 1992-94; Project Director, Effects of Licenses & Third Party Issues; Chair, Art. 2B, Task Force; Member, Phi Beta Kappa
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SOFTWARE LICENSING: PRINCIPLES & PRACTICAL STRATEGIES
(
Oxford Univ. Press,
2010
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Negligent Entrustment for Outsourced Data,
in
DATA PRIVACY AND PROTECTION: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES
(
N. Sudarshan ed.,
2009
)
(with Thomas H. Koenig)
The Tort of Negligent Enablement of Cyberspace,
in
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
(
B. Padmashree Rajeshwarrao ed.,
2009
)
(with Thomas H. Koenig)
Crimtorts as Corporate Just Deserts,
in
COMPLEX LITIGATION: CASES AND MATERIALS ON NON-LITIGATING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
(
Kevin R. Johnson and Catherine A. Rogers eds.,
2009
)
(with Thomas H. Koenig)
INTERNET LAW IN A NUTSHELL
(
Thomson/West,
2009
)
EVERYDAY LAW FOR CONSUMERS
(
2007
)
(Series edited by Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic)
UNDERSTANDING SALES, LEASES, AND LICENSES IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
(
Carolina Academic Press,
2007
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TORT LAW: CASES, MATERIALS, PERSPECTIVES
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4th ed.
2007
)
(with Thomas C. Galligan, Jr., et al)
Introduction ,
in
LEGAL ISSUES IN THE GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
(
Dennis Campbell and Chrysta Ban eds.,
2005
)
COPYRIGHT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: AN UNHURRIED VIEW OF COPYRIGHT REVISITED
(
Michael L. Rustad, Iris Geik, Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, Jerry Cohen, and Henry Horbackewski eds.,
2005
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SEARCHING THE LAW
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3d ed.
2005
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(Contributor to sections on law and literature, internet law and reviewing law)
AN UNHURRIED VIEW OF COPYRIGHT REPUBLISHED
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2005
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(with Andrew Beckerman-Rodau)
Towards the Further Legalization of Global Information Law,
in
LEGAL ISSUES IN THE GLOBAL INFORMATION AGE
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Center for International Studies,
2005
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(with Stephen C. Hicks)
Selection from In Defense of Tort Law ,
in
CANADIAN TORT LAW: CASES, NOTES AND MATERIALS
(
2004
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E-BUSINESS LEGAL HANDBOOK
(
2003
)
(with Cyrus Daftary)
E-BUSINESS LEGAL HANDBOOK
(
2002
)
(with Cyrus Daftary)
E-BUSINESS LEGAL HANDBOOK
(
2001
)
(with Cyrus Daftary)
IN DEFENSE OF TORT LAW
(
2001
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(with Thomas J. Koenig)
Business Torts and Fraud,
in
MAGILL’S LEGAL GUIDE
(
1999
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Crime and Punishment: In Defense of Punitive Damages,
in
A PRODUCT LIABILITY ANTHOLOGY
(
Anita Bernstein ed.,
1998
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Commercial Litigation,
in
MAGILL’S LEGAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
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1998
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THE CONCEPTS AND METHODS OF SALES, LEASES AND LICENSES
(
1998
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Harmonizing Commercial Transactions in Information, Protection and Use of Intellectual Property in Changing Global Economy,
in
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVOCATES
(
1997
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(Madrid, Spain)
Punitive Damages in Producers Liability--Plaintiff's View,
in
PRODUCTS LIALBILITY PRACTICE GUIDE
(
1993
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TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR AVOIDING CIVIL PUNISHMENT: PROMPT CPSC REPORTING AND CORRECTIVE ACTION IS GOOD BUSINESS" CHAPTER IN CONSUMER SAFETY AND INDUSTRY COMPLIANCE WITH THE NEW REPORTING REQUIREMENTS OF THE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION: A BLUEPRINT FOR COOPERATION IN THE '90S
(
ABA Sec. Tort Ins. Practice & CPSC,
1992
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DEMYSTIFYING PUNITIVE DAMAGES IN PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION: A STUDY OF A QUARTER CENTURY OF VERDICTS.
(
Roscoe Pound Foundation, Lee Hays Romano ed.,
1991
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Discrimination Makes Women Soldiers Ineffective,
in
WOMEN IN THE MILITARY: CURRENT CONTROVERSIES
(
Carol Wekesser and Matthew Polesetsky eds.,
1991
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SOCIAL PROBLEMS: THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
(
Michael L. Rustad, John B. Williamson and Linda Evans eds.,
4th ed.
1985
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The Challenge to Hierarchy in Legal Education: Suffolk and the Night Law School Movement,
in
RESEARCH IN LAW, DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL
(
1985
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(with Thomas Koenig)
WOMEN IN KHAKI: THE AMERICAN ENLISTED WOMAN
(
1982
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(hardcover and paperback editions, nominee for C. Wright Mills book award)
Reconceptualizing Consumer Terms of Use for A Globalized Knowledge Economy,
14 U. PA. J. BUS. L. 1085
(
2012
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(with Vittoria Onufrio)
Reconceptualizing the BP Oil Spill as Parens Patriae Products Liability,
49 HOUS. L. REV. 291
(
2012
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(with Thomas H. Koenig)
An Empirical Study of Predispute Mandatory Arbitration Clauses in Social Media Terms of Service Agreements,
34 U. ARK. L. REV. 1
(
2012
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(Symposium Issue on ADR in Cyberspace (with Richard Buckingham, Diane D'Angelo and Kathryn Durlacher)
How Armenian Cybertorts Can Advance Civil Society,
MAIN ISSUES OF PEDAGOGY & PSYCHOLOGY 2
(
2011
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On Software Licensing: For Licensees and Licensors,
31 J. LICENSING 1
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2011
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Reforming Public Interest Tort Law To Address Health and Environmental Catastrophes,
14 UCLA J. HEALTH CARE L. & POL'Y 331
(
2011
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(with Thomas Koenig)
Parens Patriae Litigation to Redress Societal Damages from the BP Oil Spill: The Latest Stage in the Evolution of Crimtorts,
29 UCLA J. ENVTL. L. & POL'Y 45
(
2011
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(with Thomas Koenig)
The Exportability of the Principles of Software Contracts: Lost in Translation?,
2 HASTINGS SCI. & TECH. L.J. 25
(
2011
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(with Maria Vittoria Onufrio)
Deciding Whether the Death Penalty Should Be Abolished,
44 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 193
(
2011
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(with Thomas H. Koenig) (book review)
Intellectual Property and Human Rights: A Paradox (book review),
21 LAW & POL. BOOK REV. 128
(
2011
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Torts as Public Wrongs,
38 PEPP. L. REV. 433
(
2011
)
(Symposium: Does the World Still Need United States Tort Law? Or Did it Ever?)
The Uncert-Worthiness of the Court’s Unmaking of Punitive Damages,
2 CHARLESTON L. REV. 459
(
2008
)
(Symposium Issue on Punitive Damages)
The Supreme Court and Me: Trapped in Time with Punitive Damages,
17 WIDENER L. REV. 783
(
2008
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(Symposium Issue on Crimtorts) (Concept I coined in my Harvard LL.M. Thesis and developed with Thomas H. Koenig)
A Hard Day’s Night: Hierarchy, History and Happiness in Legal Education,
58 SYRACUSE L. REV. 261
(
2008
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(with Thomas H. Koenig)
Extending Learned Hand's Negligence Formula to Information Security Breaches,
3 I/S: J.L. & POL'Y FOR INFO. SOC'Y 237
(
2007
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(with Thomas H. Koenig) (Ohio State University & Carnegie Mellon University peer-reviewed publication)
Circles of E-Consumer Trust: Old E-America v. New E-Europe,
16 MICH. ST. J. INT'L L. 183
(
2007
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(Symposium Issue: "Electronic Commerce: Challenges to Privacy, Integrity, and Security in a Borderless World")
'Hate Torts' to Fight Hate Crimes: Punishing the Organizational Roots of Evil,
51 AM. BEHAV. SCI. 302
(
2007
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(with Thomas H. Koenig)
Stephanie Mencimer's Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies are Taking Away Your Right to Sue,
TRIAL
(
2007
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(April) (book review)
Negligent Entrustment Liability for Outsourced Data,
10 J. INTERNET L. 3
(
2007
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(with Thomas H. Koenig) (To be reprinted in N. Sudarshan (ed.) DATA PRIVACY - HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES, ICFAI University Press 2008)
Neglecting the Neglected: The Impact of Noneconomic Damage Caps on Meritorious Nursing Home Lawsuits,
14 ELDER L. J. 105
(
2006
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H. Ward Classen's A Practical Guide to Software Licensing for Licensees and Licensors: Analyses and Model Forms,
26 LICENSING J. 24
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June/July 2006
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(Review Essay on ABA Software Licensing for Licensee and Licensors) (book review)
Harmonizing Internet Law: Lessons from Europe,
9 J. INTERNET L. 3
(
2006
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(with Thomas H. Koenig)
Review Essay: Software Licensing,
26 LICENSING J. 17
(
2006
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The Negligent Enablement of Trade Secret Misappropriation,
22 SANTA CLARA COMPUTER & HIGH TECH. L.J. 455
(
2006
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Review Essay: Competing Visions of Angst Among Elite Lawyers,
2006 U. ILL. L. REV. 475
(
2006
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(with Thomas H. Koenig)
William M. Sage and Rogan Kersh, eds., Medical Mapractice and the U.S. Health Care System,
(
2006
)
(book review)
Reforming the Economic Espionage Act: An Empirical Study,
22 SANTA CLARA COMPUTER & HIGH TECH. L. J. 745
(
2006
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Safe Harbour, Experimental Use, Inherency, Obviousness and Utility,
6 J. HIGH TECH. L. 1
(
2006
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(with Andrew Beckerman-Rodau)
The Tort of Negligent Enablement of Cybercrime,
20 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 1553
(
2005
)
(with Thomas H. Koenig)
Keith E. Maskus and Jerome H. Reichman, eds., International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology: Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime,
15
:10 L. & POL. BOOK REV. 920-924
(
2005
)
(book review)
Iwan Davies, ed., Issues in International Commercial Law,
15
:9 L. & POL. BOOK REV. 847-849
(
2005
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(book review)
The Closing of Punitive Damages' Iron Cage,
38 LOY. L.A.L. REV. 1297
(
2005
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Foreword to Thomas E. Lambert Jr., Tort Law Conference Symposium Issue, Sophisticated New Tort Theories,
5 J. HIGH TECH. L. 1
(
2005
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Happy No More: Federalism Derailed by the Court That Would be King of Punitive Damages,
64 MD. L. REV. 461
(
2005
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Rebooting Cybertort Law,
80 WASH. L. REV. 335
(
2005
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(with Thomas H. Koenig)
Alan Calnan, ed., A Revisionist History of Tort Law: From Holmesian Realism to Neoclassical Rationalism,
15
:5 L. & POL. BOOK REV. 350-353
(
2005
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(book review)
Heart of Stone: What is Revealed About the Attitude of Compassionate Conservatives Towards Nursing Home Practices, Tort Reform, and Noneconoic Damages,
35 N. M. L. REV. 337
(
2005
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Harmonizing Cybertort Law for Europe and America,
5 J. HIGH TECH. L. 13
(
2005
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(with Thomas H. Koenig)
Why Mexico? Why Mexican Law?
Why Now?,
24 PENN. ST. INT'L. L. REV. 373
(
2005
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(with Jim Smith and Katherine Pearson)
Monitoring Employee E-Mail and Internet Usage: Avoiding the Omniscient Electronic Sweatshop: Insights from Europe,
7 U. PA. J. LAB. & EMP. L. 829
(
2005
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(with Sandra Paulsson)
Torts in Cyberspace: A New Audit,
4 J. HIGH TECH. L.
(
2005
)
(Symposium Issue: Thomas F. Lambert Tort Law Conference, Sophisticated New Tort Theories)
The Closing of Punitive Damages’ Iron Cage,
38 LOY. L.A. L. REV.
(
2005
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(Symposium Issue: “Access to Justice: Can Business Coeexist With the Civil Justice System?”)
Jay Feinman's Unmaking Law,
39 TRIAL 74
(
2004
)
(book review)
Toxic Torts, Politics and Environmental Justice: The Case for Crimtorts,
26 L. & POL'Y 189
(
2004
)
(with Thomas H. Koenig)
Punitive Damages in Medical Malpractice: A New Audit,
4 LNC RESOURCES: WHERE LITIGATION & HEALTH CARE COME TOGETHER 1
(
2004
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(with Thomas H. Koenig)
Cybertorts and Legal Lag: An Empirical Analysis,
13 S. CAL. INTERDISC. L.J. 77
(
2004
)
(with Thomas H. Koenig)
Punitive Damages in Cyberspace: Where in the World is the Consumer,
7 CHAP. L. REV. 39
(
2004
)
Taming the Tort Monster: Ideology and Utopia in the American Civil Justice System,
68 BROOKLYN L. REV. 1
(
2002
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(with Thomas H. Koenig)
Private Enforcement of Cybercrime on the Electronic Frontier,
11 S. CAL. INTERDIS. L.J. 63
(
2001
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Smoke Signals from Private Attorneys General in Mega Social Policy Cases,
51 DEPAUL L. REV. 511
(
2001
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(Robert Clifford Symposium on Tort Law)
UCITA’s Commercial Law for Cyberspace,
1 CYBERSPACE & L.: INTERNET & LEGAL PRAC. 267
(
2000
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Making UCITA More Consumer-Friendly,
18 J. MARSHALL J. COMPUTER & INFO. L. 547
(
1999
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(Symposium Issue)
Unraveling Punitive Damages: Current Data and Further Inquiry,
1998 WISC. L. REV. 15
(
1998
)
(Symposium Issue)
Crimtorts As Corporate Just Deserts,
31 MICH. J. L. REFORM 289
(
1998
)
(with Thomas H. Koenig)
The Assault on Workplace Safety,
31 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 1017
(
1998
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Punitive Damage Cases in Breast Implant Producers Litigation: A Research Report,
1 J. MASS. ACAD. TRIAL ATTY'S. 30
(
1998
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How the Common Good Is Served by the Remedy of Punitive Damages,
64 TENN. L. REV. 793
(
1997
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Commercial Law Infrastructure for the Age of Information,
16 J. MARSHALL J. COMPUTER & INFO. L. 255
(
1997
)
(Symposium Issue)
Legal Resources for Lawyers Lost in Cyberspace,
30 SUFFOLK U.L. REV. 317
(
1996
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Nationalizing Tort Law: The Republican Attack on Women, Blue Collar Workers and Consumers,
48 RUTGERS L. REV. 673
(
1996
)
Women Gender Bias and Tort Reform,
2 J. MASS. ACAD. TRIAL ATT'YS
(
1995
)
(with Thomas Koenig)
An Empirical Analysis of Software Licensing & Practices (Pt. 2),
10 COMPUTER L. ASSN. BULL. 56
(
1995
)
(with Elaine Martel & Scott McAullife)
His and Her Tort Reform: Gender Injustice in Disguise,
70 WASH L. REV. 1
(
1995
)
(with Thomas H. Koenig)
Reconceptualizing Punitive Damages in Medical Malpractice: Targeting Amoral Corporations, Not 'Moral Monsters',
47 RUTGERS L. REV. 975
(
1995
)
(with Thomas Koenig)
The Commercial Law of Internet Security,
10 HIGH TECH L. J. 213
(
1995
)
Taking WLF to Task on Social Science Data in Court,
____ LEGAL TIMES 29
(
1994
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The Jurisprudence of Hope: Preserving Humanism in Tort Law,
29 SUFFOLK U.L. REV. 1099
(
1994
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An Empirical Analysis of Software Licenses & Practices (Pt. 1),
10 COMPUTER L. ASSN. BULL. 6
(
1994
)
(with Elaine Martel & Scott McAullife)
Advocacy, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics,
136 NEW JERSEY L. J. 1313
(
1994
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(with Thomas Koenig)
The Myth of the Punitive Damages Explosion: A Response to Martin Connor,
21 Prod. Safety & Liab. Rep. 736
(
1993
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(with Robert Granfield & Thomas Koenig)
How Experts View the Significance of TXO Ruling: Punitive Damage Doctrine Likely to Remain Intact,
16 Prod. Liab. & Strategy 255
(
1993
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(with Thomas Koenig)
The Historical Continuity of Punitive Damages Awards: Reforming the Tort Reformers,
42 AM. U.L. REV. 1269
(
1993
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(with Thomas H. Koenig)
The Quiet Revolution Revisited: An Empirical Examination of State Tort Reforms of Punitive Damages,
16 JUST. SYS. J. 23
(
1993
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(with Thomas H. Koenig)
The Supreme Court and Junk Social Science: Selective Distortion in Amicus Briefs,
72 N.C.L. REV. 91
(
1993
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(with Thomas H. Koenig)
Punitive Damages Crisis in Products Liability?,
22 THE ADVOCATE 30
(
1992
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(with Thomas Koenig & Robert Granfield)
Life After Law,
22 THE ADVOCATE 30
(
1992
)
(with Gerard Clark & Thomas Koenig)
In Defense of Punitive Damages in Products Liability: Testing Tort Anecdotes with Empirical Data,
78 IOWA L. REV. 1
(
1992
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Punitives Under Control; but Tort Reform Boosters See Bias in Study Findings,
78 ABA J. 38
(
1992
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(with Don J. DeBenedictis)
Karl Llewellyn's Arm-Chair Realism,
25 SUFFOLK L. REV. 135
(
1991
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The Impact of History on Contemporary Prestige Images of Boston's Law Schools,
24 SUFFOLK L. REV. 621
(
1990
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Punitive Damages in Products Liability: A Research Report,
3 PROD. LIAB. L. J. 85
(
1990
)
(with Thomas Koenig)
An Empirical study of a Prestige Image in Transition: Suffolk Law Graduates in Large New England Law Firms,
21 THE ADVOCATE 9
(
1990
)
(with Thomas Koenig)
The Law of Comparative Advertising: An Overview of Recent Developments,
ABA/ALI COMPUTER CONTRACTS AND CURRENT ISSUES: 7TH ANNUAL NEW ENGLAND COMPUTER LAW CONFERENCE
(
1987
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(with Thomas Hemnes)
Turning Carthorses into Trotters: Suffolk Evening Law School as a Counter-Hegemonic Movement in Legal Education,
17 THE ADVOCATE 18
(
1986
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